"I THINK A LEG LAMP WOULD BE MORE PRACTICAL"

Soooo…

Yesterday, El Jefe Del Merde A Loco announces he has a “Major Announcement” coming today.

What could it be?

Kari Lake to be his 2024 VP running mate?

In light of all the legal problems he’s quitting 2024?

Anything in between?

And then the Big Announcement is made…

Digital trading cards???????

Non-Fungible Tokens???

Is he aware of “last summer” NFTs are??????

Trump’s direct pitch for the trading cards underscored how secondary his campaign for president has seemed to his personal efforts over the last month.

It’s not a stunt to raise money for his nonexistant campaign. Money from the digital cards will instead be pocketed by Mr. Trump under a licensing deal, a fact that some of his aides acknowledged and expressed concern about. They worry that the move could dilute small-dollar donations to his presidential effort.

Incentives to buy the cards include entry into a series of sweepstakes to meet Mr. Trump or golf at one of his properties. Customers who buy 45 cards can receive a ticket to a gala at a Trump resort in South Florida.

“I’ll also be doing Zoom calls, one-on-one meetings, autographing memorabilia and so much more,” Mr. Trump says in the video.

Fine print on the site indicates that the sum value of all the prizes is $54,695 but also states that the dollar value for a 20-minute meeting with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago is “priceless.” It also indicates that winners of face-to-face meetings will have to cover their own travel and lodging costs to get to Mar-a-Lago.

I can't do this anymore," Steve Bannon said on his "War Room" podcast. "He's one of the greatest presidents in history, but I gotta tell you, whatever business partner, anybody on the comms team ... they oughta be fired — today."

The posts at Free Republic really are priceless. These comments are all from Trump supporting wingnuts. I think my favorite is, "It's like the political version of suicide by cop."

But there’s these:

“Uh, I joked yesterday that the "Major Announcement" would be akin to the leg lamp "Major Award" from A Christmas Story. Guess I wasn't far off.”

“Come on, this must be a (bad) joke. Please tell me this is not real news.”

“So either this is the Babylon Bee or I’m done with Trump. Thank you for your service, but I’m moving on.”

“I'd previously thought "DeSanctimonious" was the moment he jumped the shark. Clearly, I was wrong.”

“It sounds like Trump may have TDS himself?”

“This is the kind of thing his enemies would do as a joke to mock him for being narcissistic. And he just handed it to them.”

“Yesterday, people were wondering if Trump was going to announce he wasn’t going to run. I guess he just did just that.”

“Trump appears to be solving the 'Deep State's' problem all by himself.”

“I think "trading cards" is about to replace “jump the shark” in the vernacular.”

“Maybe he's setting the groundwork for an insanity defense if he's charged with anything. Because the decision to green light this would be a pretty damn good piece of evidence that he’s gone 'round the bend.”

“Trump has just proven right every liberal that called him an insane egotistical jackass. The funniest thing is you moved this out of news. Ban me, I don’t care. This is the craziest thing he could do.”

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